Having just returned from two weeks in India, I definitely don’t miss the honking: it’s enough to make Rudy Giuliani rip out the rest of his hair and run crying into the bosom of Daddy Trump. But I do miss the cute little tuk tuks, bobbing and weaving through traffic Mario-Go-Kart-style. So, you can imagine my delight when I passed by the newly soft-opened Williamsburg Hotel and saw this gleaming new ride outside.
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Do You Have a Good Wheat Hook-Up?

(Brooklyn Bread Lab)
While you’re busy grinding your own coffee, why not give the same treatment to your grains?
Ok, maybe it’s not as feasible to buy your own mill, but now you can head to the Brooklyn Bread Lab pop-up, opening its doors today at 201 Moore Street in Bushwick, to indulge in some premium wheat — if you’re not celiac or gluten-ascetic, that is.
A Hard-Hat Tour of the William Vale Hotel, Williamsburg’s New ‘PanAm Building’

(Photo: Jaime Cone)
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Williamsburg Hotel Wins Early Support For Rooftop Water-Tower Lounge
A forthcoming Williamsburg hotel’s bid to pour liquor won the tentative support of a Community Board 1 committee last night, but not before co-chair Thomas J. Burrows blasted hoteliers for building in the hot neighborhood without any input from the community “until you want a liquor license.”
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